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Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography by Thomas E. Schott β€” book cover

Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography

by Thomas E. Schott
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Library Journal

Stephens was a bundle of contradictionsa prominent Whig who became a Democrat, an antisecessionist who became a vice president of the Confederacy, a Southern nationalist who became the symbol of states' rights obstructionism in the Confederacy. Schott's full and interesting biography rescues Stephens from an undeserved historical oblivion, as it also reveals the tragedy of a statesman whose world did not extend beyond Georgia. Stephens's very limitations speak volumes on why the idea of a single South crashed against the reality of many little Souths. Recommended for university libraries.Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia

Book Details

Published
October 1, 1996
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pages
552
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780807121061

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